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Reputation: 349

GitHub - Merging other's repo as part of your own repo

Background: I am self-teaching networking course via Stanford's MOOC. However, Stanford MOOC doesn't have hands-on lab assignment so I decided to use Princeton university's assignment that is available to public as my assignment. (Here's Princeton's Network assignment for those that are interested).

In this case, what is the appropriate way of merging my currently existing repository (where I push my notes and work on labs based on books) with Princeton's assignment repository? Since I'm not really contributing the Princeton assignment as well as I want to have one single repo, I was refraining from forking Princeton's repository.

Easiest way that I can thing of is cloning Princeton's assignment repository to my local machine, removing .git file from cloned repository, dumping the whole content inside my currently existing repository, then pushing. But before I do that, I would like to hear second opinion based on more experienced users. Thank you for you advice in advance!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 23

Answers (1)

VonC
VonC

Reputation: 1323135

Since I'm not really contributing the Princeton assignment as well as I want to have one single repo

That means you can push your local clone of the Princeton's assignment repository to your "currently existing repository (where I push my notes and work on labs based on books)" as an orphan branch.

cd /local/clone/of/Princeton
git remote set-url origin /url/of/your/current/exisiting/repo
git push -u origin master:princeton

That will push the master branch of the local clone of the Princeton repo to your existing unique remote repository, but in a branch called "princeton".
That new branch will have a separate unrelated history o your current repo master branch.

Upvotes: 1

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